In the Media and Around the Community Education can lift people out of poverty, but how much education people attain is related to how their society values and prioritizes education, A. Aneesh (Sociology) told The Borgen Project. https://bit.ly/2M6hz1U Postdoctoral research Brooke Dulka (Psychology) penned a blog post for The Scientific American that explored Karyn Frick’s (Psychology) research examining the connections between estrogens and diseases like Alzheimer’s. https://bit.ly/2Yedv6d Students should make a plan for their career, future job options, and budget, Rebecca Neumann (Economics) told Fox6 News. (https://bit.ly/2HjTdhj) She also explained how people’s expectations impact the yield of treasury bonds in Fortune Magazine. https://bit.ly/2KOYWOi
This summer, UWM became the first public university in the nation to offer a completely online Jewish Studies major. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on the new offering. https://bit.ly/31o2koy Debbie Hanula (Psychology) commented on promising research that shows that tracking eye movement can reveal whether or not a person recognizes another person, with implications for law enforcement, in an article on VOA News. https://bit.ly/2P6TwCo Why are there hardly any pigeons in Milwaukee? Peter Dunn (Biological Sciences) told WUWM’s Bubbler Talk show that falcons and hawks are to blame.
How do our digital lives impact our personal lives? Noelle Chesley (Sociology) answered the question on WUWM. https://bit.ly/2ZpfdSY
Milo Miller (L&S College Relations) runs the Queer Zine Archive Project, and he explained the history and basics of queer zines and digital archiving in an article published on Women Write About Comics. https://bit.ly/34njO70
David Kaplan (Physics) lead a team that discovered a new millisecond pulsar, a rapidly-rotating neutron star that emits aa beam of electromagnetic radiation. Phys.org reported on the discovery. https://bit.ly/33Calbl
Why do so many couples get David Kaplan engagement photos these days, even if they’re taking them in grocery stores? “Social media”, Eric Lohman (Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies) told Business Insider. https://bit.ly/2L0QzxJ
Patrick Brady (Physics) explained some of the finer points of the search for gravitational waves in an article in The Economist. https://econ.st/2KXUPhy
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Rachel Buff (History) outlined the conditions facing detained migrants in U.S. border camps in an article in Newsweek. https://bit.ly/2YS4Xxl
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Jean Creighton (Planetarium) explained some of the science behind discoveries about the moon at Milwaukee’s “Under One Moon” event in August celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Moon Landing. On Milwaukee reported on the event. https://bit.ly/33tLztU
16 • IN FOCUS • September, 2019
Few children in the United States learn Yiddish as their first language anymore, Joel Berkowitz (Jewish Studies) told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as the paper reflected on the death of Paul Melrood, one of the city’s remaining original eastern European Jewish immigrants. https://bit.ly/2LgG35M Most people warn college students against incurring debt, but William Holahan (emeritus Economics) said in an Urban Milwaukee opinion piece that taking out some loans may help students in the long run – if done wisely. https://bit.ly/2LgH11U
